Thielsen View Campground
1Heads up1 fire 20 mi away
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $15–$20Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6461 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
In the shadow of majestic Mount Bailey on the west shore of Diamond Lake, this campground takes its name from the view of the unforgettable peak of Mt. Thielsen. Thielsen View Campground is a favorite with families and anglers. Keep reading
Recreation
This campground is a great location for many recreational opportunities. Diamond Lake is stocked annually with 300,000 rainbow trout. If fishing is not your thing, the campground is on the John Dellenback trail. This paved trail is an 11-mile loop around the lake. If you prefer to travel by foot, Mount Bailey and Rodney Butte trails are less than a five-minute drive to the trailhead.
Facilities
Thielsen View Campground has a boat ramp, free for campers staying in Thielsen View. Water spigots and gray water sumps are located throughout the campground. Each loop has at least two vault toilets. The closest RV dump station is at the resort’s gas station. The fee is $5 to use the resort’s dump or campers may use the Forest Service dump station in Diamond Lake or Broken Arrow Campgrounds. There are 60 sites in the campground, all are available by reservation only.
Natural Features
The mixed conifer canopy generously shades most sites during the warm summer days. All campsites are very close to Diamond Lake, which offers great sunrises over Mount Thielsen.
Nearby Attractions
Mount Bailey, Mount Thielsen, Pacific Crest Trail, Dellenback Trail, Diamond Lake Resort, Diamond Lake Stables, and Lemolo Lake and Resort are all nearby. Visitors may also want to take some time to visit nearby Crater Lake National Park, the only national park in Oregon! The amazing Crater Lake area offers a glimpse into the volcanic history of the area.
What the agency tells you
The map on recreation.gov is incorrect please see the link to a PDF in the "Additional Information" section.
$5.00 per extra vehicle per night. Vehicle must fit on parking spur.
Each spring the Diamond Lake Ranger District's recreation crew fall numerous hazardous trees. Mostly lodgepole pine that have been killed by Mountain Pine Beetles. The bright side for campers, the trees are usually great campfire wood. Campers may have up to a ¼ cord of wood in their site and may not take any firewood from the campground. Other than those two restrictions, most campers find plenty of campfire wood with little effort.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Maximum vehicle length: 35 feet
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 64
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campground. Each loop has at least two vault toilets. The closest RV dump station is at the resort's gas…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…for campers staying in Thielsen View. Water spigots and gray water sumps are located throughout the…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Night sky · 163rd darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:47 UTC
recreation.gov lists 61 of the 64 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Watch for a cancellation
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Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicle Fee $5 per vehicle per night. **MUST BE PAID AT THE CAMPGROUND FEE KIOSK UPON ARRIVAL” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $15–$20 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 16:47 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
64 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 61 mapped sitesAll 64 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 64 of the 64 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| A | A01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 126 ft | 356 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A02 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 89 ft | 397 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 89 ft | 331 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A04 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 93 ft | 456 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A05 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 93 ft | 375 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A06 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 113 ft | 410 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A07 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 113 ft | 518 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A08 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 106 ft | 435 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A09 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 101 ft | 552 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A10 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 101 ft | 479 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A11 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 103 ft | 497 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A12 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 96 ft | 599 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A13 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 96 ft | 612 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A14 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 122 ft | 509 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A15 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 134 ft | 632 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A16 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 119 ft | 605 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A17 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 461 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A18 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 530 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A19 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 404 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A20 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 364 ft | $15–$20 |
| A | A21 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 143 ft | 256 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 133 ft | 197 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B02 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 70 ft | 316 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 70 ft | 330 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B04 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 118 ft | 198 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B05 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 118 ft | 106 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B06 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 96 ft | 185 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B07 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 96 ft | 157 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B08 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 99 ft | 162 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B09 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 101 ft | 150 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B10 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 135 ft | 94 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B11 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 101 ft | 195 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B12 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 93 ft | 289 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B13 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 80 ft | 261 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B14 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 80 ft | 312 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B15 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 73 ft | 253 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B16 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 90 ft | 350 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B17 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 73 ft | 280 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B18 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 79 ft | 354 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B19 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 87 ft | 265 ft | $15–$20 |
| B | B20 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 79 ft | 348 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 94 ft | 221 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 02 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 85 ft | 298 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 85 ft | 253 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 04 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 89 ft | 310 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 05 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 70 ft | 274 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 06 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 70 ft | 336 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 07 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 85 ft | 293 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 08 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 331 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 09 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 276 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 10 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 70 ft | 289 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 11 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 70 ft | 230 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 12 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 66 ft | 196 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 13 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 90 ft | 85 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 14 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 141 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 15 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 105 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 16 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 109 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 17 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 113 ft | 133 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 18 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 113 ft | 141 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 19 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 122 ft | 137 ft | $15–$20 |
| C | 20 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 100 ft | 146 ft | $15–$20 |
| Extra Vehicle | Extra Vehicle Fee | type not stated | 35 ft | $5–$20 | ||
| Scan and Pay | Standard Double Site S&P | type not stated | 35 ft | $5–$20 | ||
| Scan and Pay | Standard Single Site S&P | type not stated | 35 ft | $5–$20 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 64 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Diamond LakeUmpqua National Forest · 1.9 miDiamond Lake RV ParkUmpqua National Forest · 2.7 mi
Broken Arrow CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 2.7 mi
Clearwater Falls CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 6.3 mi
Whitehorse Falls CampgroundUmpqua National Forest · 8.7 miFrom Roseburg, OR, travel east on OR-138 / NE Diamond Lake Boulevard for 80 miles, turn right onto Forest Road 4795 at the sign for the Diamond Lake Recreation Area. Turn right at the gas station and continue for 3 miles, the campground is on the left.
From Bend or Klamath Falls: Take HWY 97 to HWY 138. Take HWY 138 east towards Roseburg. Make a right turn onto HWY 230, west. Take right onto Diamond Lake Loop road, make a left at the sign for Broken Arrow Campground. Follow the road around until you reach Thielsen View Campground on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Beaver Marsh, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 24°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 15°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Thielsen View Campground is in Oregon’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Cliff Bentz (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →